[New-Poetry] Forrest Gander (Again)

[David Graham]

I'm not up on Forrest Gander's work--either in prose or poetry.  But I did
locate his web site, and note that several essays are online, plus reviews
and poems:

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/people/Forrest/


On 5/1/06 8:10 AM, "Paul Lake" <paul.lake at mail.atu.edu> wrote:

> On 5/1/06 2:52 PM, "Jeff Newberry" <jeff.newberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not picking a fight here--curious that I feel the need to add this caveat
>> when I disagree with somebody . . .
>>  
>> Anyway, I dont' think of Forrest Gander as a gaseous writer.  I've read a
>> good bit of the book of essays that the quotation in question comes from (A
>> Faithful Existence).  He seems to me a writer imminently connected to the
>> natural world; his poetry stems from his connection with the land.  I've just
>> finished reading Eye Against Eye, which includes a wonderful sequence of
>> poems written after some landscape photography by Sally Mann.  I don't have
>> the book right here in front of me, but I was impressed with it.  I'd never
>> read anything by Forrest Gander before; I'd heard of him, but I knew that he
>> published with New Directions that that my aesthetic was somewhat different
>> than his.  Frankly, I didn't think that I'd like his work.
>>  
>> However, I read him and I did really enjoy it.  I've just gotten copies of
>> Science & Steepleflower and Deeds of Utmost Kindess.  So far, I'm not liking
>> them as much as I do Eye Against Eye, but I find the poems fascinating (if
>> not somewhat opaque at places).
>>  
>> All of this to say that I didn't think the quotation I posted was any more
>> "gaseous" or elevated than any number of things one could say about poetry.
>>  
>> Cheers,
>>  
>> Jeff Newberry
>> 

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